Andrew wrote:Coming on the heels of the announcement that Madden 09 will not be developed for the PC platform, an announcement has been posted over on the official NBA Live 08 website stating that NBA Live 09 will also not be released on the PC.

Last week we talked about our decision to not develop this year's Madden for the PC. We've also made the same decision for this year's NBA LIVE on the PC.

Needless to say, this is a huge disappointment for those of us who prefer to play NBA Live on the PC.

Not the news we were hoping for at all after the Madden announcement came out.

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I don't mean to say "I told you so," but after the decline of the PC version, this was inevitable. I remember someone posting this somewhere, I think it was EAcrazylegs.

Quote may be inaccurate-
"Would you rather have the developers work on a patch for this years game or work on making Live 09 nextgen?" He also said something about them reworking the PC development team, so I still have hopes that something is in the works for 2010.

Now we should really call out for a patch to fix the most glaring issues - the gameplay, the simulation engine, and the playing rotation in dynasty mode.

man this is some BULLLLLLLLLLL, I PROMISE IT IS, I HATE EA, NO I HATE EA SPORTS, BECAUSE OTHER EA DEPARTMENTS HAVE RELEASE NEXT GEN FOR THE PC, THEY FIRST RELEASE TWO TERRIBLE VERSIONS OF THE GAME, THEN SAY THEY QUIT, Y DOES THEY EVEN TRY, THE ONLY REASON THEY CONTINUE TO PUT #1 SELLING BASKETBALL GAME BECAUSE PEOPLE CONTINUE TO GO OUT AND BUY THE PC VERSION BECAUSE THE GAME ISNT THAT GOOD,

This exactly what they want you to do. Forget that the PC is even a gaming platform with no releases of Madden or Live, since they don't make much money in comparison to the consoles. Go buy a console and make them some real money. Make them look good for their business decisions and not their dedication to the gaming industry.

I can tell you that FIFA and NHL are next to be axed. Maybe even Tiger Woods.

Damn, this does it... NBA LIVE for the PC was the best because of all the patches ppl have provided to improve the game dramatically. I just don't understand why sports games are preceived to be way better on the consoles (PS3, XBOX360) The only benefit putting sports games on the consoles are the graphics, but these days computers are able to handle the same or even better graphics than the PS3 and XBOX360 (look at Call of duty 4 for example) The benefits of sports games on the computer is numerous, Constant roster updates, jersey updates, accessories, cyberfaces, dornas, courts, stadiums and more... I just don't understand when they say that sports games are more suitable for consoles when there is less updates that can be downloaded.

It seems that EA Sports has simply given up on the PC gamers since they cannot satisfy our standards. They took the easy way out and targeted the less sophisticated crowd. I wouldn't be so pissed if the had made NBA LIVE 08 perfect with gameplay and substitution but the ppl at EA seem to not have a solution to the many bugs they have created thus given up on a solution and moved on...It's time for us to petition for NBA 2K9 to get on the PC side now since clearly it is the superior basketball game that we are all hoping for.

This is crap, BUT...we should organise something, Any Mods here who know any way of doing this, a petition or something to have them work on a patch etc to improve this years game and keep this years game up to date.

If they haven't scrapped the EA Sports PC team then they should put some of that team to the task of developing patches and rosters to take time away from the amazing guys here at NLSC ... Thanks all I love all the patches... and help create things to fix the crap they shovelled out these last couple of years!

Not a real big suprise for me. EA just spent a butt-load to aquire Bioware, and twice a butt-load on a so far failed attempt to buy Take Two. Now, they need to cut costs. Anything thats not Battlefield, The Sims, possably FIFA, or anything already in development at Bioware has to get trimmed.

Seriously disappointing news so I made all those extra jerseys that were never added for Live 05-08 for nothing, I was hoping they were gonna add some more hardwood classics if there was an 09 version for pc. I am not overly surprised but I am frustrated with this decision EA Sports made.

I guess we will have to start developing our own pc game from almost the ground up if there is anyway to hack the hell out of well all pc versions to great an unofficial Live 09 but i do realize thats a long shot of actually being able to be done.

2002's elimination resulted in a "better" game. (Although the ported console /UI was trash.) Hopefully we will see 360-port in 2009. (Titled 2010)

If EA has no plans to ever continue the PC series, I really hope they will release the source code to us as we requested a few years back. Or at least find a way to have people buy a "license" to the engine and then install our mod which is our edits to the source code.

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Calling it now, NBA Live 2010 will be called NBA Live X and will use Roman Numerals for the following years.

What you say is true Benji, if/when we get a PC version back it will probably be the same game from the 360. However, I am just sick of putting work into these current versions to make them "fun" for me. There are only 3 EA basketball games out right now that I can play with no want/need modifications, Street vol 2, March Madness 2003, and (for now) March Madness 08 on the 360. Everything else I have to tweak the gameplay, update graphics, ect.

As soon as i heard about Madden, i thought that will prob happen with the Pc version of Nba live as well.

Totally sux, i really enjoyed playing nba live on the pc with the keyboard and the other pc centric things you could do with it, mods, etc.
Just hope they actually make the next nba live actually good, cos it will be hard or next to impossible to mod it to make it better.

well that EA sucked I known for a long time..now thay suck more..
but now patches(mby soon me too) can not worry for nba other versions so give all the work for nba live 08 to make it the best moded game! Disrespect to EA Respect to patchers

Yes the only platform where they have no compettiton is cancelled...
They want to challenge 2k and Sony on the Nextgenconsoles huh? By buying 2k.

I updated my sig (I know its badly cut but I did it in 5 minutes)
Live is the biggest PC sports game and they just cancel it.
Good luck to you pathcers out there and good luck EA with screwing your custmers and fans.

The benefits of sports games on the computer is numerous, Constant roster updates, jersey updates, accessories, cyberfaces, dornas, courts, stadiums and more... I just don't understand when they say that sports games are more suitable for consoles when there is less updates that can be downloaded.

Now that the consoles can connect to the internet as easily as a computer, updates aren't a problem. The problem is that EA wants them to be THEIR updates (with a "small" charge of course).

The benefits of sports games on the computer is numerous, Constant roster updates, jersey updates, accessories, cyberfaces, dornas, courts, stadiums and more... I just don't understand when they say that sports games are more suitable for consoles when there is less updates that can be downloaded.

Now that the consoles can connect to the internet as easily as a computer, updates aren't a problem. The problem is that EA wants them to be THEIR updates (with a "small" charge of course).

It's about making money, but let's see what happens...

Well i know that u can connect thru PS3 and XBOX360 and download "their" patches which are mainly only roster patches, but their updates are not as frequent as the patches being released on websites like nba-live.com and they EA Sports don't have updates for courts, jerseys and display which adds more realism to the game. I just don't understand why they think sports games are just more suitable for consoles, i don't see a difference at all as long as you have a controller for your PC...

GazuN wrote:About JaoSming's comment? why do you think so? Why do you think that 2K sports will not exist any more? I hope that they would like to make some money of releasing their 09 (if they made it) for PC

EA is trying to buy out Take Two for GTA:IV but they are also the owners of the 2k Sports Brand.

Ok guy´s i don´t like the decison as well but i hope that maybe they really try to make the game better by sitting out one year! thats what i hope because if we are honest we all screwed EA for the last years and to be honest i demanded a change for a very long time!

of course i am dissapoindet to see EA not having a pc version of LIVE but i will keep up the hope that this will result in a new better nex gen LIVE 2010! I thougt about buying an console for a very long time but what i would like to know:

Can i use the patches (gameplay, Roster, sim Engine, ILT and so on) on the console version? or is there no need for that with the console version?

would be happy about some answers because here are all the guy´s who know soooo much about live!!!

ok guy´s at last don´t let your had´s down and please keep up the GREAT PATCHING WORK!!!!!!

in my opinion sports games should be released ever other year anyway. say ever even numbered year you release a nba game and ever odd number year you release a patch for the previous game. a 2 year build cycle could(should) greatly increase the overall gameplay experience. also you can have games counter each other, like a new live in even years and new madden in odd years. if something like that was happened then i would be fine with a descision like this, however since this is not the case i think its dumb. the profit margain might not have been that great for the pc but they pretty much had a monopoly on it since no one else is making pc bball games(well any that can rival).

MY brother liked the sig idea and since e has damn much freetime (11 years) He did many slogans for sigs. I never thought that hes so creative^^ He is Live addicted now (but I still have no idea why he scrathed my disc though). He wanted to do sigs with 2 animated frames: First the teams slogan and then his EA slogan. Here theyy are:

Celtics: Think Big EA: Think money
Bovcats: Elevate EA: Elevte income.
Bulls: Love it live EA: Loving money /Love money
Rockets: Its time EA: Its money/Its time to screw gamers
Cavs: All for one one for all EA: All for money, money for us.
Grizz: New Game EA: No game / same game
Bucks: Where amazing happens EA: Where shit happens
Hornets: Passion Purpose pride EA: No Passion no purpose no pride
Nets: More than a game EA: Less than a game
Knicks Experience Knicks BBall EA: Expirience a year without live
Blazers: Rise with us EA: We rise alone Buying taketwo
Spurs: Team is everything EA: Money is everything.
Raps: My game is basketball EA My game doesnt exist
Wizards: Ready to rule EA: Ready to release. Anytime
Suns: Eyes on the prize EA: eyes on the money
Philly: Its a Philly thing EA: Its a money thing
Kings: Passion 4 Purple EA. passion 4 money
Adidas: BBall is a brotherhood EA: Baketball is money
Adidas: Impossible is nothin EA: A good game is impossible
NBA: I love this game EA. i hate this game
He was pretty angry that thers no LIve 09 on the PC EA always gains money releasing the same game every year.
Peace

Please comment and add NBA on PC in 09 Dream or Reality?

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well there is hope next year. i used to be an EA tech so i have my contacts.

"If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems." -- Edward Hodnett

best thing that can happen could be like in 02 when there was gap year and then we got better game the PS2/ xbox port. Lets hope that there will be a NBA LIVE X in Fall of 2009 for the PC That would be a port of the 360/ PS3.

And if it is not brought back to life on the PC. Then we would need to take step live other patchers Did when MVP Baseball 2005 and just re haul it every year.

Many of you are hoping that 2k would put there game on pc , well if they arent planning on it know then. We wont ever get 2k on pc. It is only a matter of time before EA buys take 2 / 2k games.